Firstly, let me applaud the initiative of Environment Canada for integrating geocaching into this new contest. As geocacing is now becoming widely practiced by many canadians, it's universal appeal and the low cost and low impact on the environment makes it the perfect activities for many canadian families.

It is however regretable that a Canada-wide contest requires residents of both Manitoba and Saskatcheman to travel upwards of 1000 km in order to find the nearest cache available for the contest. There is a major gap of over 1800 kilometers in the Prairie provinces with the two nearest caches available being:

There is a strong geocaching community in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan comprising of several thousands of people and there are many sites that would be very suitable for an Environment Canada and/or Parks Canada cache in both provinces.

Please consider adding a few geocaches for us Prairie folks to participate in the contest as well.

From what I understand, it was up to the individual Parks & Historic sites if they wanted to participate in the contest and not a predefined list of sites. You can see then which site are interested in geocaching and which site needs a little more work to convince them to get on board.

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